G4 MDD boots into the boot menu

I have a Power Mac G4 MDD (with the firewire 800 port) that is booting into the boot menu most of the time when I press the power button. From there I can select the HD and the boot procedes normally. I thought it was a HD problem and replaced it, but the boot menu still appears, as if I am holding the option key . I also tried changing the amount of memory and clearing the PRAM with the keyboard. What could be causing this? TIA

Maybe too obvious, but, did you reset the startup disk control panel? check or replace the battery?
If you reset nvram in any way you have to go back and set startup disk again. I prefer using Open Firmware rather than zap method.
Instead of replacing the drive, backup with superduper, run disk warrior, erase and restore to clean up a drive. Then run Tiger Cache Cleaner which can now do some maintenance and repairs from Single User Mode, very nice alternative to Applejack, which has also been 'tool of the trade.'
Try booting from a FW800 drive and do some of those repairs.

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